Google has just announced at I/O that support for a host of new languages is inbound for Assistant. Some of them were previously present in Assistant, at least at some unofficial level, but now French, German, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese support will be arriving soon, and more languages like Italian, Spanish and Korean will be added by the end of the year.

Google has been focusing a lot at this year's I/O on expanding the tools available in the Assistant, and it's great to see it spreading to more countries and platforms between the new languages supported and coming iOS support. There's no word on how Google Lens might fit into foreign language support, but the translation features in it will probably compliment the new language support very well. Here's looking forward to more info on when the added language support will land, outside of their current prediction of "this summer."

If Norwegian and Swedish can be two languages,
If Croatian and Serbian can be two languages,
Then why can't Brazilian and Portuguese be two languages?

abc

Same reason English and American can't be two languages.

Dennis Fluttershy

I mean, I know English is considered the same language, but they still could call it two different languages.

Croatian and Serbian are called two different languages even though they're almost the same.
Urdu and Hindi are the same language, just with two different scripts. (Serbian Latin and Serbian Cyrillic is the same language with two scripts).

I see no issue in calling it just Brazilian.

bejli

Except that they are not almost the same (Croatian and Serbian). Try using the wrong one in other country.

Dennis Fluttershy

Um... my Serbian friend is using words that are showing up in the Croatian translations more than in Serbian translations. It works just fine.

John Maverick

For the Muricans now Brazilian is a language. Long live the third world.